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CloudMonkey
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Data Capacity Limit

Hi,

 

I'm considering uploading an additional 100mb file every day to Power BI in order to give users historical daily snapshots of the database. So I guess in theory I'll be uploading (and keeping uploaded) 36.5GB of data per year.

 

Looking at the pricing plan https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/ I see the free version has 1GB/user and the pro version has 10GB/user. Does this mean that (looking a 1 year horizen) I would need 37 users on free plans or 4 users on paid plans? (but I assume that logic is wrong otherwise companies could just set up lots of free plans)? Is it the editor/owner that is limited to 1GB/10GB - and therefore the whole Power BI implementation is limited to 1GB/10GB, with the number of consumer users being irrelevent?

 

Please can someone clarify?

 

Thanks,

 

CM

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I believe that you will still be limited to 10G, however if each of your users pushed up a file, then your logic would hold.  In the URL you reference, if you select the little informational icon under the power bi pro column in the data capacity row, you can see that your tenant limits follows your logic

 

Maybe this link would help clarify https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-admin-manage-your-data-storage-in-power-bi...

 

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Sunkari
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1GB/10 GB is compressed version of data size. Means if your original data 100gb, Power BI compress it up to 1gb or less that.

 

Refer Power BI compression techniques.

Brilliant, thanks. And is the 1GB/10GB per user, or just for the 'owner' user? (if I have 1000 free users I'm struggling to believe Microsft would give 1000GB of memory for free?)

 

Thanks,

 

CM

I believe that you will still be limited to 10G, however if each of your users pushed up a file, then your logic would hold.  In the URL you reference, if you select the little informational icon under the power bi pro column in the data capacity row, you can see that your tenant limits follows your logic

 

Maybe this link would help clarify https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-admin-manage-your-data-storage-in-power-bi...

 

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